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John Donne

“when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one another;”

John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel by John Donne
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